Leader of Group That Tried to Trick Washington Post With Fake Story Defends ‘guerilla War' on Media

Self-proclaimed guerrilla journalist James O'Keefe visited Southern Methodist University on Wednesday but only briefly addressed the fallout of a Washington Post report that revealed his group's apparent attempt to trick the paper into publishing a fake story. "The Washington Post seems to want a Nobel Prize for vetting a source correctly," O'Keefe, founder of Project Veritas, said of Monday's story, which detailed how a woman falsely told the Post that Alabama Republican Senate candidate Roy Moore had impregnated her when she was 15.Project Veritas has been criticized for surreptitiously recording video while targeting conservative targets such as Planned Parenthood, teachers' unions and community organizing non-profit ACORN and for selectively editing those videos to promote particular narratives. Such tactics, O'Keefe said, are necessary because "it's the only way to ferret out what people really believe." O'Keefe made his remarks to an audience of about 90 people at SMU's Hughes-Trigg Student Center. His presentation was largely a "greatest hits" of Project Veritas efforts, supplemented with video footage, and attacks on the mainstream media. The group says its aim is to investigate and expose corruption, fraud and more.   Continue reading...